I have asked MLUGers about being able to start Fedora from a GRUB 2 menu. I 
tried, I researched what I could, and just ended up with a boot time bios key 
to allow me to select the drive.

I would have preferred the Simple GRUB menu where I slide down the list, click 
enter, and voila.

Has anyone used grub to start a grub 2   UBUNTU, or vice-versa?

 

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--- On Thu, 12/2/10, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Hendrik Boom <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [MLUG] A Fedora14/CentOS5 guy wants to install Debian
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, December 2, 2010, 1:15 PM

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 08:27:29AM -0800, Leslie S Satenstein wrote:
> Following advice from Hendrik, I installed SQUEEZE on the home computer.
> 
> On my home computer I dumped Ubuntu and installed squeeze. On that 
> same box I have xp, fedora14, w7 and Debian Squeeze.  Perhaps because 
> I was teethed on Fedora, that I have it as preferences, but I am 
> really looking for ext4 support for linux.  Both UBUNTU and Fedora 
> offer that. 

And did you find it in Debian?

> I am starting to do coding in C and just need the most current TCP/IP 
> socket software.  If the Debian and Fedora versions are at the same 
> level, great.

Check out IPv6 support while you're at it.  You may turn out to need it.

> Why did I dump UBUNTU.  Because of grub2.  With debian, and Fedora, I 
> can easily use grub to select any one of the 4 operating systems at 
> boot time.

Debian seems to be trying to impose grub2 on me.  Not on you?  I had to 
explicitly forbid the grup upgrade in aptitude.  There were a number of 
complaints about grub2 failures when it first appeared, and I was 
unwilling to abandon bootability.  I haven't heard any complaints 
recently.

-- hendrik
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